The award winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, deals with the many issues in society through the mind of a fictional character from the 1930s. To clearly point out the various issues that exist in society, Harper Lee wrote the novel from the perspective of an innocent child. A child with little to no understanding of any of the social issues, even though Maycomb constantly suffers from them. One of the main societal issues that Harper Lee focuses on is the issue of social classes. Although Harper
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Moral Courage in To Kill a Mockingbird People have different point of views and ideas on what moral courage is. In the story To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout's point of view on moral courage changes throughout the story. At the beginning of the story Scout was naive and did not know much about how the world really worked. By the end of the book, Scout started to realize how things really are. She started to realize racism and prejudice. This causes Scout to change her point of view on what moral courage
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In To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many characters who have power, but the one who stands out is Mayella Ewell. Many will say Mayella is not a powerful character even though she is white, she is very poor and lives on the bad side of town. Mayella does not have much control over her life and does not get to make her own decisions. Mayella Ewell’s dad is a drunk and abuses her. In the little town of Maycomb, Alabama class, gender, and race all determine how much power someone has. Class refers
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One of the many themes of “To kill a Mockingbird” is to show courage no matter what the odds are. This can be seen many times in the book and even in real life. Take for example some courageous people like ghandi. He was a person who had a lot of courage standing up for his beliefs, Courage can be found in the book many times. One of the many times was when Atticus was sitting at the front door of the jailhouse. A whole mob of people came up to him demanding that he move so they can get Tom Robinson
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Two white supremacists (Nicky Katt and Doug Hutchison) come across a ten-year-old black girl named Tonya (Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly) in rural Mississippi. They violently rape and beat Tonya and dump her in a nearby river after a failed attempt to hang her; she survives, and the men are arrested. Tonya's father, Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson), contacts Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey), a white lawyer. Brigance admits the possibility that the rapists will walk free. Carl Lee goes to the county
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Breaking a time-honored code must be hard to cope with, but is it worth having a man’s life ruined? This court case took place in 1962, therefore, slavery ended, racial segregation ended not too long ago, but racism was still very strong. The only thing that made Mayella’s situation wrong, was the guilt she felt for breaking a social code. Atticus uses ethos, pathos, and logos. At the end of the argument, Atticus states “In the name of God, do your duty. In the name of God, believe Tom Robinson.”
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Courage in other words means bravery. For example , how Martin Luther king Jr stood up for his people, Moses for leading his people out of slavery , and how women fought for their rights. In the book "to kill a mocking bird " by Harper Lee the making of courage is shown through Atticus Finch, Boo Radley, and Mrs. Dubose, which demonstrates how courage is shown in different ways. The first person to show courage is Atticus Finch. "You rarely win but sometimes you don't" (Lee ,149) This points
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This quote is saying that if I am a coward and cannot hold my head up, I shouldn’t be in the legislature. Because he would be going against all of his beliefs. Atticus feels he must defend Tom Robinson because it would be the right thing to do. A big idea Atticus is demonstrating is equality and liberty for all. I think this because everyone else in town is going against him, but does it anyways. This quote is saying that if I am a coward and cannot hold my head up, I shouldn’t be in the legislature
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To Kill a Mockingbird and the southern gothic genre In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, the author Harper Lee utilizes the genre of southern gothic. The southern gothic genre is the best choice for the story that author Harper Lee wanted to tell. The reason why is because this genre allows the story to have an eerie mood fitting with the narrator, Scout who is a child and sees certain places or people as uncomfortably creepy or as jarring. It also allows the issue of unjust racism in the most inappropriate
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A person uses integrity, honesty, and conscience in everyday life and even in books the characters also show these traits. In the book, “How To Kill A Mockingbird” Harper Lee uses many conversations through characters to show how they use integrity, honesty, and conscience. Integrity is based on the honesty and the moral concepts of a certain person. In this book, Atticus uses integrity more than anyone throughout the whole book, he uses certain clues to say everyone is equal and how everyone should
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